Well, it looks like I have found a little bit more time today, so I thought it was time to put pen to paper (or should that be fingers to keyboard?) and do something constructive while I get my weekly dose of Grey’s Anatomy.
It’s been a couple of years now since I tossed out our copies of “What to Expect” and officially stopped worrying about what E SHOULD be doing and instead turned my attention to what she IS doing. And the past couple of months in particular have brought many exciting milestones that are all her own. For some reason, the one that has warmed my heart the most is ”climbing up on to the couch.” Now, she has been climbing up on the couch for a while (a souvenir of which is the trip to the emergency room we took in June) but this is different. Recently, she now climbs up and sits down nicely with her back straight and her little feet near the edge. She often then picks up a book and starts reading, or just looks over at me with the proudest toothy smile you have ever seen and enjoys the simple act of sitting.
Last night brought another new milestone. I was in the kitchen preparing lunches with one ear on The View. I peeked in to the living room to see that E had abandoned her books and was standing precariously on the edge of an ottoman trying to plant a kiss squarely on Bill O’Reilly’s face as he bantered back and forth with the ladies on TV. (I am not sure exactly which part of that situation was more frightening: my daughter on that dangerous perch, or that she had gone to such great lengths to kiss Bill O’Reilly.)
So are these the same things that most parents of 3.5 year olds are celebrating? Probably not. But the great thing is, I have absolutely NO idea what milestones most other 3.5 year olds are meeting. I have completely lost track of worrying about what any other kids are doing, and writing our own list of milestones as we go is so much more fun.
